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Earl Cox is a native of Irvine, in Eastern Kentucky, and is now a popular sports columnist for the Voice-Tribune in Louisville. He writes a weekly syndicated sports column for papers across the state. He began his sportswriting career while a student at UK. Cox covered Transylvania University’s basketball and baseball teams and sports at Lafayette High School for the Lexington Herald. While in the Army, he worked at the Indianapolis Star. He returned to the Herald in 1955. Cox joined the Courier-Journal where he worked for 33 years. In his role as executive sports editor of the combined sports department of the Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times, he provided readers with excellent sports pages. Cox is the founder and president of Associated Press Sports Editors. He was inducted into the prestigious Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997. Cox is a staunch supporter of high school sports, and a member of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. He was named in 1998 as an “All-American” by the UK Jefferson County Alumni Association.

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